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Author: Yordanos Almaz Seifu Mengedegna (The Traveller) Addis Ababa Pages 359 price 100 birr The series of xenophobic attacks targeting Ethiopians and other African national immigrants in South Africa has been in the news recently. Incidents of shootings, vehicle torching,…
Author: Worku Gebeyehu Lakew Empire and Revolution in Ethiopia, a new perspective: 2018 Addis Ababa 344 pages, Price 142 Birr Forty-five years after its outbreak, the Ethiopian Revolution has continued to fascinate historians and writers to this day. A handful…
Author: Mulugeta Gudeta Blood Rituals (Self-published) 2019 Addis Ababa 128 Pages In his concluding remark on the study the Ethiopian student movement, The Quest for Socialist Ethiopia, the historian, Professor Bahru Zewde asks the following poignant questions, «Did the student…
McKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem. New York: Penguin Classics, 2017. 368 pp, paperback $13.65, ISBN-10: 9780143132219, ISBN-13: 978-0143132219. Amiable with Big Teeth was…
Book Introduction Text by Günther Schlee The Boran are a southern Oromo group, which occupies a senior position in Oromo traditional history. Their contact period with the Amhara was shorter than that of other Oromo groups and their dialect has…
This is the second installment of the article entitled ‘Twenty eight years holed up in Italian Embassy.’ The guests have overstayed their welcome The book, “I noti ospiti” (‘Known guests’) sheds light on the untold story of the two former…
The hope was that by now they should have left the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa where they have been given refuge for the past 28 years, and walked free. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed embarked upon a new course of…
Getachew Diriba: Overcoming Agricultural and Food Crises in Ethiopia: Institutional Evolution and the Path to Agricultural Transformation Imprint: Independently published, Printed in the United States of America, 2018, 447 pp, $39.95. ISBN 9781980310983 Reviewed by Teshome Hunduma and Selam Hailemichael…
Country Roads (growing up, exposures, decisions, and reflections) By Aklillu Kidanu Wolde Giorgis 283pp, Self-published …Odysseus sighting his island after years of wandering; the return, the return, the great magic of the return. -Milan Kundera, Ignorance Aklilu Kidanu’s “Country Roads”…
This is the second installment of a book review of Dr. Aklilu Habte’s book The History of Haile Selassie I University: Development and Expansion of Higher Education in Ethiopia. Part I could be found here. As an educationalist with an…